Republicans’ 2010 election triumph will fuel civilization’s demise, Chomsky says

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/republicans-2010-election-triumph-will-fuel-civilizations-demise-chomsky-says/

The Republican Party's triumph in the 2010 congressional elections, coupled with the rapid depletion of the earth's natural resources, signaled the impending collapse of human civilization, according to a world-renowned scholar known for his left-wing politics.

“You could almost interpret as a kind of a death knell for the species," Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in a recent interview.

But he's not the only one worried; the US business press is, too.

Chomsky continued, "There was an article in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, you know – not a radical rag exactly. They’re running through the new Republicans coming to Congress, and they’re worried about them.”

[handmade34]

1. rec

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2. I don't think it is all that bad, we will survive. The Republicans

will misread the election and go to far just like the Democrats did this year.

[kestrel91316]

5. The only place Democrats went "too far" was toward the center right.

But go ahead with the RW talking points......

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6. Tell your Blue Dog Democrats that are out of office that one. The

only reason my Congressman lost his seat was he voted for the HCR bill.

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3. But remember, teabaggers, Chomsky is a communist/socislist/Nazi.

Or at least one of those - which invalidates his opinion on everything else.

[villager]

4. Civilization was on the "demise" path anyway -- though I agree Republicans generally hasten it

Democrats do nothing to prevent it, however, inasmuch as they're too busy quaking for/at their corporate masters...

[ladjf]

8. When Obama backed the "Tax Cut Deal", he kicked the props

out from under what few constructive option we had remaining. We've got to start collecting a fair amount of taxes from the super rich before it's too late for all, including the super rich and we can't wait for them to agree with that.

[ladjf]

7. I don't believe that Chomsky is exaggerating the predictions for

the future. We are in deep trouble. But, I would rate the collapse as probable but not totally certain.